Here’s our “Report Card” for the West and Rhode Rivers this past year. With your support, we are making progress toward making our rivers swimmable, fishable, crabable and kayakable by 2025.

You’ll read about how our corps of citizen-scientist volunteers are collecting water quality data and how we’re using that data to direct our restoration efforts, like these:

• Just days after 600 middle-school kids planted grasses along 960 linear feet of living shoreline at Camp Letts on the Rhode River, we found a horseshoe crab crawling up on our brand-new beach to lay eggs.
• We’re launching an exciting new project with the Holly Hill Harbor community on the Mayo peninsula to protect their kids and pets from bacteria in stormwater runoff, and starting a new stormwater treatment wetlands project at the Avalon Shores fire station in Shady Side.
• We’re working with the Department of Natural Resources to open up Franklin Point State Park, a 477-acre tract of natural beauty that’s been locked behind the gates for two decades.
• You’ll also find useful information on ways you can lower your impact on the waterways, with our help or that of partners like the Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy.
• Together, we can give our grandchildren the gift of clean rivers, teeming with aquatic grasses, oysters, fish and crabs, they way they were in our grandparents’ time.

But we need your help to make this happen. Please click here to make a secure donation on line so we can keep working hard to make the West and Rhode Rivers swimmable, fishable, crabable and kayakable.

Thank you for your support!

And thanks to Tim Laur for the beautiful cover photograph.

We are part of the Mid-Atlantic Tributary Coalition (MTAC). To see the assessment methods we used, see MTAC's Sampling and Data Analysis Protocols.

Previous years' report cards:

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Reports from previous years may be seen by clicking on the links below:

2008 State of the Rivers Report (PDF)
2007 State of the Rivers Report (PDF)